because of what happened in newtown and what has happened throughout the united states. and i'm grateful for that. i'm grateful for daniel mazzer's dad, tom, who i saw again this week, having the good fortune to speak with him many times over the years. if you were alive today, daniel, his son, would be 40 this year. and to this day -- and yesterday, i think it was, maybe the day before -- when he comes to congress, tom wears the same sneakers that daniel had on the day he was killed at columbine. and tom has never, never given up. he's fought tirelessly to build safer schools, to argue for stronger gun laws, to raise awareness around gun violence protection, just like the families from newtown who sat up in that balcony over there and saw the catastrophic failure on this floor that night, just like the kids from parkland who came to congress over and over again so that -- in an effort to say, we don't want one more kid in this country to be killed this way, we don't want one more life cut short, we're tired of living in a country that doesn't seem to care for us, we're